SANS Cyber Ranges

The most comprehensive of the NetWars ranges, this ultimate multi-disciplinary cyber range powers up the most diverse cyber skills in a collaborative environment.

Focused on preventing, analyzing, and defending against complex real-world attack scenarios, including brute-force attacks and ransomware campaigns.

Focused on digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, and malware analysis, this tool-agnostic approach covers everything from low-level artifacts to high-level behavioral observations.

Focused on the technologies used in electrical generation and distribution systems, the challenges are themed around power system scenarios, protocols, and architectures.

Focused on securing medical technology, the challenges include device vulnerability scanning, web application assessments, and responding to ransomware threats.

Focused on factory machinery operations, this experience brings players onto the factory floor, exposing them to the challenges of detecting and defending physical equipment and manufacturing components from cyberattacks.

Join SANS Skills Quest – Core Edition to help computer scientists and cryptologists of the past solve mysteries. They will test our defensive, offensive, forensic, and threat intelligence aptitude. Train at your own pace for 6 or 12 months.

Take on the role of cyber investigator and uncover key clues from the evidence. The range guides you through a series of challenges to reveal key facts within files, processes, and common programs. Train at your own pace for 4 months.

SANS Skills Quest by NetWars is SANS’s newest cybersecurity training solution, designed to support your continuous learning.

The jukebox is spinning again, and this time, it’s loaded with AI, chaos, and the sharp scent of danger. Welcome to Core NetWars version 11, SANS’s most diverse cyber range!

PolEx is an annual hands-on cyber exercise, run with SANS Institute, that brings together energy sector professionals for realistic simulations focused on ICS, CERT, and SOC environments.

Listen to Ed Skoudis, SANS.edu President and creator of many a cyber range, along with our event operations team, on how our cyber ranges come together, find out about special events like the SANS Tournament of Champions, Holiday Hack Challenge, and much more.

SANS is excited to announce the launch of Core NetWars Version 10, the latest iteration of our renowned cyber range. Core NetWars V10 is designed to meet current cyber challenges and help participants build cutting-edge skills, all wrapped up in an intriguing retro arcade scenario with an AI adversary.

This free challenge will help people around the world develop cybersecurity skills and get a chance to win prizes ranging from cybersecurity goodies to the grand prize of a SANS online training course.